Synonyms
Aquaponics, Blue farming, Brackish water culture, Farmed fishery, Freshwater culture, Hydroponics, Mariculture, Pisciculture, Blue Revolution.
Introduction and Definition
The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) defines aquaculture as the production of aquatic animals and plants (including photosynthetic organisms). Fish is an essential source of protein for humans, and demand will rise as the world’s population expands (Tidwell and Allan 2012; Tsado et al. 2012). It is a renewable natural resource that, if carefully managed, may be utilized forever. The present level of exploitation has gone beyond the maximum sustainable output, leaving aquaculture operators to meet the increasing need for artificial production. The process of reproducing aquatic creatures in a regulated or semi-controlled environment is known as aquaculture. According to Dauda and Ibrahim (2015), aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic creatures with human intervention to...
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Elegbede, I., Dauda, A.B., Osho-Abdulgafar, N.F., Esther, S.O., Lateef, B., Deborah, J.I. (2022). Aquaculture and Blue Farming. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_307-1
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